#Osmos gallery professional#

Certainly, I did not understand the potential it contained until Mercier rendered its result in my Berlin apartment while I was away on vacation. In 1998 I purchased from Galerie Mehdi Chourakri in Berlin a little 5 inch ring - think flat cardboard donut – a stencil housed in an unassuming brown envelope. Jugnet’s work in situ was a large-scale single-image projection entitled oh, oh, oh, (1997), which cast a vast shadow onto the converted industrial venue founded by Joachim Abrell and Christian Rattemeyer. How did you discover his work and have you collaborated with him on previous projects?ĬSR: Mathieu Mercier was introduced to OSMOS by his professor, Anne-Marie Jugnet, an artist who exhibited at OSMOS in Berlin in 1997. We think of our lives and our space and our production as being osmotic, which metabolically involve the flow of molecular information across a selectively permeable membrane.ĭC: Mathieu Mercier: Neither / Nor is the next show. We produce public art programs in a park with First Street Green we make preserves from farm-raised produce and in 2014, artist Austin Thomas even made us an OSMOS Beer. With OSMOS Books we edit and publish content rich and beautiful books with artists – the next being Leslie Hewitt’s first monograph. Our quarterly, OSMOS Magazine is the most recognized art publication in the market fostering contemporary perspectives in photography as the medium crossing industries - art, design, fashion, journalism and even advertising.

I didn’t grow up in an art family nor was my Southern American home town close to any urban center, so I feel blessed to be doing all this. I have been Senior Editor of Parkett, Founding Editor of Fantom, Artistic Director of Art Basel, CEO of the fashion brand Giulietta, and as a consultant building partnerships between brands and institutions.

#Osmos gallery professional#

Together with architects Leong-Leong, we realized a design in 2013, where the space for exhibitions and gatherings in front is separated by a sliding wall from the editorial office in back to be able to open one onto the other depending upon the activity.īefore establishing the expanded program for OSMOS in New York, my professional experience in the art world has been amazing. Like Schwab and his friends, OSMOS aims to let the space fulfill many purposes. Their anarchist newspaper was printed on site in the backroom. OSMOS Address, the project space, is located in the East Village, in the former Schwab’s Tavern, where 19th Century radicals like Emma Goldman and Ambrose Bierce gathered. In general we nurture haptic, physical and concrete encounters and products for an in the art world. Dorothée Charles (DC): Could you present OSMOS ?Ĭay Sophie Rabinowitz (CSR): OSMOS was initiated 20 years ago with a project space in Berlin and it has since developed into a fully integrated set of curatorial and editorial platforms based in New York.